“The Misty Rain on Lushan Mountain”
Northern Song Dynasty. Su Shi
The Misty Rain on Lushan Mountain, Zhejiang Tide, I can’t wait until it arrives.
It’s nothing to do if you get it, the misty rain in Lushan and the tide in Zhejiang.
At this time, the 64-year-old Su Shi is no longer high-spirited. After being demoted several times, his life has been bumpy. At this time, he is an old man of Fengzhu. After many years of meditation, he has a deeper understanding of life.
The gist of the whole poem is: the misty rain in Lushan, the rain in Qiantang River The tide is a sight worth visiting. If you don’t go in this life, you will regret it for life. But when I really got to the foot of Lushan Mountain and in front of Qiantang River, I saw the misty rain and the surging tide, but I didn’t have any special feeling.
The first reading of this piece of seven must feel a little strange, there are four lines in total, the first line and the last line are exactly the same, in fact, this is the genius of the poet. The whole poem uses the Zen language in the Zen history book “Five Lamp Huiyuan”, which is a Zen collection compiled by Puji, an eminent monk of Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou.
In the poem, the eminent monk divides life into three realms: the first Seeing a mountain is a mountain, and seeing a water is water; second, seeing a mountain is not a mountain, and seeing a water is not water; third, seeing a mountain is still a mountain, and seeing a water is still water.
The poet described such profound Zen language in easy-to-understand verses. “Lushan Misty Rain” and “Zhejiang Tide” are mountains and water respectively. Before going there, people were attracted by the mountains and rivers, just to enjoy the beautiful natural scenery. At this time, the mountains are just mountains, and the water is just water. This is the first A boundary.
Over time, this wish to go has become a An obsession, until before the landscape, the mountains and water are not natural landscapes, but the achievement of an obsession. At this time, people may be satisfied after getting them, or they may be disappointed by different phenomena and imaginations. All kinds of thoughts make people lose their original intention of appreciating landscapes. This is the second state. For most people, it can only reach this state.
The last realm is returning to the original. After experiencing all kinds of life and looking down on obsessions, and then looking at the mountains and rivers with pure original intention, when there are no more distracting thoughts in the heart, the mountains and rivers have returned to their original colors. Su Shi’s last-ditch pen, without his usual unrestrained spirit, nor the graceful style that he is good at, speaks in a soft voice, but he has written the true meaning of life.
In addition to Su Shi, there is also the poet Xin Qiji of the Song Dynasty, who can achieve the third realm. Case · Yuan Xi” wrote:
“Zhongli Xun He has hundreds of thousands of words. When I look back, that person is there, where the lights are dim.”
Isn’t this sentence referring to this realm? Everyone longs for enlightenment and transcendence. However, without going through the three-fold mountain of human nature, human nature, and self-nature, I am afraid that I will not be able to truly understand the meaning of life. Of course, all human beings have Buddha-nature, and there is a saying in Buddhist schools: that is, the mind is the Buddha. Or epiphany, it doesn’t matter.
Su Dongpo’s words express his philosophy of life.
In today’s era when knowledge is king, the temperament of poetry and literature is the most attractive.
Ancient poetry can infiltrate your heart, make you have a well-rounded knowledge and agile talent, and make you have an incomparable temperament.
“The books you’ve read and the paths you’ve walked are all hidden in your temperament.”
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Many professors have been encouraging people today to read more ancient poetry. From three-year-old children to the elderly, they can find themselves and find interest in ancient poetry.
Ancient poetry can not only increase knowledge and insight, but also cultivate a person’s temperament invisibly. We can see this from the talented Dong Qing.
And this year the Ministry of Education has also issued a new reform regulation, starting from the new semester this year , Increase the content of ancient poems in primary and secondary schools, the proportion of ancient poems in the examination will reach 50% of the whole test paper, and the content of ancient poems will be added to the first grade.
Each era has so-called “people”, And these ancient poems that have been handed down are the ones we should treasure carefully!
Whether adults or children, we should not forget our national treasures.
There are many poetry readers on the market, and many are written by famous artists, but they are mainly in the form of poems and translations , many people still only know the truth after reading it, but don’t know the reason.
Therefore, the judges of the fourth season of “Chinese Poetry Conference” hosted by Dong Qing, Professor Yang Yu of Central South University, and Professor Tang Sulan of Hunan Normal University , children’s reading expert Wang Lin recommended a set of books “Reading Poems in Fei Hua Ling” to friends who want to read poetry.
This set of classical poetry readings based on the traditional poetry culture game “Fei Hua Ling” as the model, is to draw out a lot of poetry through the game, so that we can understand the memory of ancient poetry , and also learn some ancient historical customs, human geography, and expand knowledge.